We got back to the staging area, and the colonel says "Shut down ath- all helicopter operations." He says "You can't s- you know, they can survive coming in here." That lasted for about a m- 45 minutes to an hour. Unidentified interviewer:Īll four of us is wounded. And- of course they was eating helicopters live I took 50 soo-50-something rounds in my helicopter. And the- odds became to - about 10 to 1 then. Just -it was- they - three regiments come off the side of that hill - they were dug in. And we made four lifts into there without receiving a round of fire - just I thought another cakewalk here. Surrounded by 250 foot trees - hardwood trees - and there's a river called Ia Drang right near the Cambodian border - just the other side of it. In- the 14th of November, 1965, we-inserted a- a- just short of a battalion of infantry - First of the Seventh - into a little landing zone called LZ-Xray. Tell me about what led up to your citation. Department of the Interior then for another 20 years.
And- the guy that I - the serv- personnel guy was not happy with me but- I retired and- I was 39 years old and 23 years in- couple of young boys - a wife, of course - and- went on about my business back to Idaho.
But anyway, I had to get permission, and he, he- pulled some strings and got me out. I said no, I got over 20 and I can get out. So I had to go to the Pentagon to get- anudg- put- a- General Canard had told me one time - he says "If I can ever help you, let me know." Cause they told me I wasn't -couldn't get out because I had signed a - an indefinite category. And I determined early on they wasn't going to w- didn't want to win, so I didn't want nothing else to do with it. I was assigned to First Cav of 229th and- put my year in there- back to Texas as an instructor and flight evaluation and at the end of that one I says I'm retiring -and they want to send me back to Vietnam - I said no way. Everybody that seemed to be rated or as a helicopter pilot, they wanted you to go to the First Cav Division. But the Army decided different when the Kore-when- the Vietnam thing popped up, and they called all pilots and sent us to Fort Benning. I thought my retirement assignment was coming up and so I - they sent me to Boise as an advisor - engineering aviation. Mapped about 16 Latin American countries - again, making topographical maps. Another 4 year tour in the s- Panama area with headquarters in Panama. Of course had been in the meantime, while in the States, go to advanced course, career course in engineering and this type of thing. Basically after the Korean War I- I went to Iran for a year and did mapping, that was a topographical maps - flew helicopters for survey parties- come back and did a tour of duty in Fort Rucker as an instructor. But eventually they changed their mind and they needed- needed more pilots! So they lowered their regulations and I jumped on the bandwagon and went to flight school.
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And that's where the "Too Tall" came in for the movie and the book and all of that. But anyway I applied for flight school as soon as I got back to the States- and they- kept me for 2 years - they wouldn't let me go because of the regulations. I had ridden in that helicopter and this guy was - had a whi-leather jacket on and he looked clean and well fed, and I thought - maybe I should be one of them. And General Van Fleet promoted me to - he gave me a battlefield commission to a Second Lieutenant in Korea - 1953. And there was about 257 of us went up that hill, and wounded or killed all but 14 of us. Just about 120 days before the war was over they decided they needed to take the place called Pork Chop Hill. Was assigned to various infantry units, but I was basically a combat engineer -but they didn't care about that - everybody was fighting as- we had clerks and whatever. Went to Korea as a Sergeant First Class was promoted to a Master Sergeant very shortly after that. The Korean War broke out, and I volunteered to go, and the Army gladly accepted my offer. And at the end of that- 2 years I came back - went back to school - I finished school - and- joined the Army as an enlisted man of course and they shipped me to Germany -for 4 years - waited on the Russians to come across the line for 4 years and never got around - they never got around to it. What, what year was it when you enlisted? Ed Freeman: I joined the Navy instead and spent 2 years. I grew up in- South Mississippi on a farm - 9 kids. Where'd you grow up and what were your interests? Ed Freeman: And what was the rank you retired at? Ed Freeman: Okay, for the editor, just state your name, spell your last name and tell me where you're from. Home » Text Transcript Interview with Ed Freeman Unidentified interviewer:
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